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Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim
A small gold figure of Yamantaka
Details
A small gold figure of Yamantaka
Exquisitely cast with the fierce deity striding in alidhasana atop a prostrated bull, his right arm raised with the skull club and his left holding a lasso, adorned by a garland of severed heads and beaded necklaces, his bull head in a wrathful expression with his snarling mouth revealing his long fangs and his brow centered by his third eye, his hair raised in a flaming coiffure secured with a tiara, with the bull's head expressively raised below revealing a human figure underneath him, all backed by a flaming mandorla over a lotus base
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high
Exquisitely cast with the fierce deity striding in alidhasana atop a prostrated bull, his right arm raised with the skull club and his left holding a lasso, adorned by a garland of severed heads and beaded necklaces, his bull head in a wrathful expression with his snarling mouth revealing his long fangs and his brow centered by his third eye, his hair raised in a flaming coiffure secured with a tiara, with the bull's head expressively raised below revealing a human figure underneath him, all backed by a flaming mandorla over a lotus base
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired before 1971, New York
Literature
F. Chow, Arts from the Rooftop of Asia, 1971, cat. no. 59
Exhibited
Arts from the Rooftop of Asia, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 1971